REECAS Course List | Fall 2022

JSIS A 110    INTRO RUSS CUL/CIV        (A&H,SSc)

Introduction to Russian culture and history from pre-Christian times to the present, as seen through literary texts, music, film, visual art, and historical works. All lectures and written materials in English. No prior knowledge of Russian necessary. Offered: jointly with RUSS 110; A.

JSIS A 302    POLTIC/CULTURES EUR        (W,SSc)

Builds upon themes and topics introduced in JSIS A 301. Provides rigorous and specialized investigation of European political institutions, societies, and cultures in the modern era.

JSIS A 430    SOVIET EMPIRE        (W,SSc)

Surveys history of Soviet military and Soviet empire from 1917 to 1985, breakup of the USSR during 1985 to 1991, and the emergence of new security issues among those Eurasian states that formally constituted the national components of the USSR and its communist military allies.

JSIS B 312    MONEY & MARRIAGE        (SSc)

Provides an cross-cultural and interdisciplinary discussion of romantic and economic issues related to marriage by drawing on seminal texts in the fields of history, anthropology, feminist literary criticism and cultural studies.

JSIS B 340    THE COLD WAR        (SSc)

Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Cold War (1947-1991), a global conflict, with political, cultural, and military tensions, between the two post-World War II superpowers: the USA and its "Western" allies, and the USSR and its "Eastern" allies. Attention given to diplomatic, military, and cultural ramifications. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 340.

JSIS B 416    PSYCHOANLYS INT ST        (SSc)

Explores the relation of trauma to memory and cultural production, focusing on historical, literary, and filmic treatments of hysteria and repression, shell shock, and the effects of war, terrorism, and psychic trauma. Uses psychoanalytical theory to analyze the commentary on international issues that lies in texts, films, and other cultural phenomena.

JSIS B 430    LATE IND & SOC CHGE        (SSc)

Deals with distinct patterns of social change under late industrialization, such as Japan, South Korea, Germany and the Soviet Union. Analyzes the social and institutional implications of economic policies by looking at the interactions between the state, traditions, and economic actors.

JSIS B 431    INTL NEGOT SIMULATN        (SSc)

Research and writing in small groups to prepare policy documents on a current international issue, followed by simulated negotiations with students representing different nations, following instructions from and reporting to national leaders.

C LIT 250    INTRO: LIT & CULTR        (A&H,SSc)

Study of literature in its relation to culture. Focuses on literature as a cultural institution, directly related to the construction of individual identity and the dissemination and critique of values.

C LIT 362    TPCS IN MODERN LIT        (A&H)

Explores topics in literature and cultures of the modern world (approximately 1800-present) across national and regional cultures, such as particular movements, authors, genres, themes, or problems.

C LIT 371    LIT & VISUAL ARTS        (A&H)

Focuses on specific theoretical problems. Examines the relationship between text and image in a variety of art forms including poetry, novels, paintings, photography, essays, comic strips, film, and advertisement. Readings, in English, from a wide variety of national literatures.

C LIT 424    EPIC TRADITION        (A&H)

Ancient and medieval epic and heroic poetry of Europe in English: the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid; the Roland or a comparable work from the medieval oral tradition; pre-Greek forerunners, other Greco-Roman literary epics, and later medieval and Renaissance developments and adaptations of the genre. Choice of reading material varies according to instructor's preference. Offered: jointly with CLAS 424.

CMS 320    CINEMA AND NATION        (A&H)

Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 423    EAST EUROPEAN FILM        (A&H)

Studies major East European film makers who left their countries at some point in their careers. Compares East European and Western production of those directors who worked partially in the West. Offered: jointly with SLAVIC 423.

CMS 571    NATIONAL FRAMEWORKS        

Approaches to national, transnational, global, diasporic, and/or regional cinemas and media. Content varies.

FRENCH 376    CULTR FRNCE TO REV        (A&H,SSc)

Studies the development of intellectual, literary, and artistic cultures in the context of the profound political and social evolutions of the Renaissance through the early nineteenth century in France. Taught in English.

FRENCH 445    WOMEN WRITERS        (A&H)

Focuses on French women writers and writing about women. Chronological and geographic range varies. Gender issues addressed in critical fashion, considering the different historical and ideological contexts in which each of the works was produced.

ITAL 356    SOCIETY IN FILM        (A&H,SSc)

Studies the evolution of Italian postwar society through the analysis of film and literature as well as critical, historical, and sociological readings.

GERMAN 120    INTRO GERMAN STUDIES        (DIV,SSc)

Introduction to cultural, social, and intellectual developments in German-speaking lands and their wider influence in the world. Emphasizes transnational dialogues with underrepresented groups that critique the unequal power relations underpinning traditional concepts of culture and systems of knowledge.

GERMAN 500    LIT THEORY & BIBLIO        

Historical survey and analysis of criticism (Methodengeschichte) and modern trends in contemporary theory. Methods of research and bibliography, as well as theoretical aspects of practical interpretation.

HSTEU 274    20TH CENT EURO FILM        (A&H,SSc)

Introduces the histories of world war, the rise and fall of fascism and communism, postwar migrations, the Cold War and decolonization, and the making of the European Community through film. Historical content unified by methodological focus on the social and political function of film.

HSTEU 274    20TH CENT EURO FILM        (A&H,SSc)

Introduces the histories of world war, the rise and fall of fascism and communism, postwar migrations, the Cold War and decolonization, and the making of the European Community through film. Historical content unified by methodological focus on the social and political function of film.

HSTEU 402    THE REFORMATION        (SSc)

Origins of the disunity of Europe in the crisis of the sixteenth century with emphasis on the relations between religion and politics.

HSTEU 451    E C E SINCE 1342        (SSc)

Explores the history of the lands and peoples of East Central Europe (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Hungarians).

POL S 335    POL ECONOMY TOPICS        (SSc)

TOPIC: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY & DICTATORSHIP

POL S 368    INTL HUMAN RIGHTS        (DIV,SSc)

Studies the international human rights movement in its legal and political context. Focuses on institutions which influence, enable, and constrain the international promotion of human rights. Offered: jointly with LSJ 320.

POL S 403    INTL REL ADV SEM        (W,SSc)

Examination of contemporary developments in the field of international relations. Content varies according to the nature of developments and research interests of the instructor.

POL S 425    POLITCL PSYCH & WAR        (W,SSc)

Explores how political scientists use psychology to address questions of war and peace.

POL S 447    COMP POL ADV SEM        (SSc)

Selected comparative political problems, political institutions, processes, and issues in comparative perspective.

POL S 452    MASS MEDIA PUB OPIN        (SSc)

Examines the foundations of the idea of public opinion in a democratic environment and the role of mass communication in the organization, implementation, and control of that opinion. Considers these relationships from the perspectives of societal elites, media, and citizens. Offered: jointly with COM 414.

FRENCH 376    CULTR FRNCE TO REV        (A&H,SSc)

Studies the development of intellectual, literary, and artistic cultures in the context of the profound political and social evolutions of the Renaissance through the early nineteenth century in France. Taught in English.

FRENCH 445    WOMEN WRITERS        (A&H)

Focuses on French women writers and writing about women. Chronological and geographic range varies. Gender issues addressed in critical fashion, considering the different historical and ideological contexts in which each of the works was produced.

ITAL 356    SOCIETY IN FILM        (A&H,SSc)

Studies the evolution of Italian postwar society through the analysis of film and literature as well as critical, historical, and sociological readings.

SPAN 360    CONTEMPORARY SPAIN        (A&H,SSc)

Social, political, and cultural developments in Spain since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Extensive use of Spanish Web sites. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 302, SPAN 303, SPAN 310, SPAN 314, SPAN 315, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330. Instructors: Raneda Offered: jointly with JSIS A 360.

SCAND 330    SCAND MYTHOLOGY        (A&H)

Integrative study of religious life in the pre-Christian North. Emphasis on source materials, including the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda. Discussion of historical, archeological, and folkloric evidence. Offered: AWSpS.

SCAND 370    THE VIKINGS        (A&H,SSc)

Vikings at home in Scandinavia and abroad, with particular emphasis on their activities as revealed in archaeological finds and in historical and literary sources. Offered: jointly with HSTAM 370.

ROMN 420    ROMANIA TRANSFORMED        (A&H,SSc)

RUSS 101    FIRST-YEAR RUSSIAN        

RUSS 110    INTRO RUSS CUL/CIV        (A&H,SSc)

Introduction to Russian culture and history from pre-Christian times to the present, as seen through literary texts, music, film, visual art, and historical works. All lectures and written materials in English. No prior knowledge of Russian necessary. Offered: jointly with JSIS A 110; A.

RUSS 223    RUSSIAN CINEMA        (A&H)

Covers Russian cinema from its beginnings to the present day. Directors include Yevgenii Bauer, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevoldo Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksei Balabanov, and Aleksandr Sokurov. Also "Russians in Hollywood." Covers the relevant sociopolitical context. Also features documentaries and animation. Offered: AWSp.

RUSS 340    RUSSIA'S BIG BOOKS        (A&H)

Studies one big/epic novel by the titans of Russian literature per quarter. Includes such novels as Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Goncharov's Oblomov, Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and Nabokov's Ada. All readings are in English. Offered: AWSp.

RUSS 424    ETHNIC/CLTRL IDEN        (A&H,SSc)

Issues of cultural and ethnic identities and neo-colonialism. Special focus on Russian and East European Jewish literature and culture, and central Asian literature, art, and culture. Taught in English.

RUSS 424    ETHNIC/CLTRL IDEN        (A&H,SSc)

Issues of cultural and ethnic identities and neo-colonialism. Special focus on Russian and East European Jewish literature and culture, and central Asian literature, art, and culture. Taught in English.

RUSS 543    SMNR RUSS PROSE        

Analysis of Russian prose fiction. Selected authors and topics.

SLAVIC 200    INTRO TO SLAV LIT        (A&H)

Introduces major Slavic literary works of different types (stories, novels, poetry), mostly from the 20th and 21st century, focusing on the intense "close reading" of these texts that identifies their main literary features. Excellent beginning training for the informed reading of any kind of literature. Taught in English.

SLAVIC 423    EAST EUROPEAN FILM        (A&H)

SPAN 360    CONTEMPORARY SPAIN        (A&H,SSc)

Social, political, and cultural developments in Spain since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Extensive use of Spanish Web sites. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 302, SPAN 303, SPAN 310, SPAN 314, SPAN 315, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330. Instructors: Raneda Offered: jointly with JSIS A 360.

RUSS 401    4TH YR RUSS        (A&H)

Class discussion, oral presentations, and composition, based on reading a variety of texts, both literary and non-literary. Advanced grammar. Translation one full course period per week. First in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: either 2.0 in RUSS 303 or 2.0 in RUSS 350. Offered: A.

RUSS 501    GRAD RUSSIAN LANG        

Develops skills of particular use to graduate students. Emphasis on rapid assimilation of variety of written materials with sophisticated understanding and maximum retention of vocabulary, and ability to discuss in Russian the more theoretical and abstract kinds of material. Prerequisite: RUSS 403 or equivalent and graduate standing in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies.

SLVN 401    INTRO SLOVENE LANG        

Introduction to spoken and written Slovene language. First in a two course sequence. Prerequisite: either BCS 403, BULGR 403, CZECH 403, GERMAN 103, ITAL 103, POLISH 403, ROMN 403, RUSS 103, RUSS 150, UKR 403, or status as a heritage speaker of Slovene. Instructors: Biggins